That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap